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Amazon has unveiled several new e-readers and tablets

Amazon made a big news splash late in the day Wednesday when it introduced two new Kindle eReaders, four new Fire tablets ,and Fire OS 4.0 “Sangria.” There’s even a...

Foxconn is barely able to keep up with the massive iPhone 6 demand

Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus supplies may continue to be constrained as Foxconn reportedly is struggling to keep up with demand for the handsets, reports the Wall Street Journal....

Amazon's old rival could be coming back to wage war again

At the moment Amazon pretty much dominates online shopping—at least in America—but that wasn’t always the case. Back in 2010 the e-commerce giant bullied Diapers.com, a rival website focused on...

Google has acquired online polling company Polar

Google has just loosened their purse strings to pick up yet another company, where this particular entity is known as Polar. What does Polar do? They happen to be a...

Wal-Mart and Best Buy have decided not to use Apple Pay

During Apple’s presentation on Tuesday, the Cupertino company took the wraps off their new mobile payment services dubbed Apple Pay. They announced that they have many major retailers and restaurants...

BlackBerry has acquired virtual SIM startup Movirtu

A couple of months back a leaked memo from BlackBerry revealed that the company is now on growth footing once again. Since then it has made a couple of acquisitions,...

Tim Cook believes the iPhone 6 will trigger "the mother of all upgrades"

If there was one thing that Apple customers have always asked Apple for, it would be larger displays. This is thanks to Android and Windows Phone OEMs who have released...

Intel is looking to modernize data centers with its new Xeon server chips

Intel has designed its latest server chips to provide the building blocks to modernize "legacy data centers" by providing more processing cores, throughput and power-saving features. The Xeon E5-2600 v3...

Apple is doubling down on security to avoid future iCloud leaks

Nobody would have thought that in September the spotlight would be diverted from the new iPhones to potential security issues with iCloud. But all that changed over a week ago...

Daqri has designed a smart hardhat for blue-collar workers

In Los Angeles, a startup called Daqri has designed a different kind of hard hat: an Android-powered one that's capable of augmented reality. As such, it really looks more like...